Fall 2024 Activities

Mandatory Courses

  •  HD 505 Develop Effective Leadership 

Technical Courses

  • CPT_S 570 Machine Learning
  • ME 581 Control systems
  • ME 582 Robot Kinematics and Dynamics
  • CHEM 503 : Advanced Topics in Inorganic Chemistry

Immersive Course

  • Mandatory Field Training: Oct. 10 from 4-5pm 
  • Event 1: Oct. 29 (all day event): Field Robot Demo in AM followed by focus groups and survey sessions with farm workers at Allen Bros Fruit in Prosser.
  • Event 2: Dec. 9-11 Hort Show (Yakima, WA): various times/dates; students will host a table at the event to collect surveys from Hort Show attendees.

IRAS Seminars

DatePlace SpeakerSeminar Title
Oct 17th
11am-12pm
ETRL 101
Zoom
Dr. Kshitiz Upadhyay, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Louisiana State UniversityConstitutive Modeling of Soft Materials: Past, Present, and Future
Oct 3rd
11am-12pm
OnlineHatem Zeine, Founder and President, OssiaThe Future of Sustainably Powering IoT
Sep 26th
11am-12pm
ETRL 101
Zoom
Dr. Jiecai Luo
Professor, Electrical Engineering Department,
Southern University and A&M College
Optimal Control for Control Actions with Mixed Impulse Function and Bounded Piecewise Continuous Functions and Some Other Research Topics
Sep 19th 11am-12pmETRL 101
Zoom
Dr. Sihui Li
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Infeasibility Proofs in Robot Planning
Aug 29th 11am-12pmETRL 101
Zoom
Dr. Joel C. Perry
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering.
University of Idaho
Assistive Robotics for Assessment, Training, and Recovery of Function in Arms and Hands after Neurological Injury

Professional Development Activities

DatePlaceTitle
Sep 18th 11am-12pmZoomFormatting Your Thesis or Dissertation
Sep 23rd 4am-5pmLighty 180
Zoom
CV to Resume: Graduate’s Road Map
Virtual Expo: Oct 7th 11am-2pm
In person Expo: Oct 8th 11am-3pm
Virtual Expo:
On Handshake
In person Expo:
Beasley Coliseum
WSU Career Expo & Technical Fair – Virtual Expo on Handshake
Oct 16th 4pm-5pmLighty 180
Zoom
Networking with Handshake and LinkedIn: Graduate’s Road Map

Oct 30th 10am-11amZoomCommunity over Commercialization: A Conversation about the Future of AI: A WSU Libraries and PDI Collaboration